Scarlet and the Ring (Meg and Greg)
by Elspeth Rae (Author) Elisa Gutiérrez (Illustrator)
A decodable book featuring four phonics stories specially designed to help children with dyslexia or other language-based learning difficulties find reading success.
While Meg and Greg are visiting Greg's family on Stardust Island they find themselves searching for one lost or missing item after another! Join Meg, Greg, cousin Martha and a puppy named Scarlet as they discover the thief who took off with a precious garnet ring at a farmers' market, find and catch a horse named Popcorn who got lost in a forest, save a surfer who fell from his board and got badly hurt and chase an escaped teddy bear dangling from a helium balloon at a fun fair.
Meg and Greg: Scarlet and the Ring is the fourth book in the Meg and Greg series designed for shared reading between a child learning to read and an experienced reader. Inside you'll find four stories that focus on words with r-controlled vowels. For the first time in the series, readers will also be introduced to multiple spellings for a single sound.
Praise for the Meg and Greg series:
"A thoughtfully designed storybook adds another helpful tool to the box for readers who need support." --Kirkus for Frank and the Skunk
"A unique approach to high-interest texts for reluctant burgeoning readers, this book offers phonics fun wrapped in serious research-based success." --School Library Journal for A Duck in a Sock
"The stories offer both flashes of humor and plenty of action to drive the instructional intent." --Booklist for A Duck in a Sock
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School Library Journal
Gr 1-3--This latest installment in the "Meg and Greg" series, which enables burgeoning and struggling readers with useful exercises, phonics, and sight words, introduces readers to r-controlled vowels (/ar/, /or/, /er/, and /air/). Each story centers one vowel sound, but all embrace the theme of working together to accomplish a goal of recovery. At the end of each tale are activities with sight words and phonics sounds from the plot. In the first story, Meg and Greg visit Greg's family and help his cousin Martha retrieve her missing garnet ring at the farmers' market. In the second, the duo help Martha's friend Flora find her horse Popcorn who was spooked by a storm and ran away. In stories three and four, they help an injured surfer get back to shore, and reunite a little boy with his toy bear. Each spread includes an adult (or buddy) reader's text on the left, and sequential comic-style art with dialogue bubbles and illustration labels for the young reader on the right. VERDICT This is an extremely useful and entertaining series for striving readers; children reading this book along with their partner are not only getting the adventures of Meg and Greg, but learning their sight words and phonics with ease.
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Provides a supported flow to the reading of each story that enables the young reader to gain confidence. The modelling by the adult /buddy reader provides strategies for the young reader. At the same time, the story requires each partner to contribute to the reading in order to discover and enjoy each adventure. This partnership makes shared reading a special experience for both readers. Highly Recommended. — CM: Canadian Review of Materials
Elspeth and Rowena are sisters who believe in a world where all children learn to read with confidence and have the chance to discover the pleasure of being lost in a good book.
Elspeth Rae is a teacher certified in using the Orton Gillingham approach to teach children with dyslexia and other language-based learning difficulties. She lives with her husband and three children in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Rowena Rae is a children's writer and editor living with her two children in Victoria, British Columbia.
Elisa Gutiérrez is an award-winning children's book designer, illustrator and author with a passion for language and literacy. Originally from Mexico City, she lives with her husband and two children in Vancouver, British Columbia.
JNF013100 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts | Sounds
JNF021070 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Games & Activities | Word Games
JNF029040 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Language Arts | Vocabulary & Spelling
JNF013120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts | Words (See Also Headings Under Language Arts)
Study and teaching (Elementary)
Instructional and educational works
Phonetic method
Lecture
Maethode phonaetique
AEtude et enseignement (Primaire)
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